{"id":50,"date":"2006-10-02T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/tis-the-season.html"},"modified":"2006-10-02T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T01:33:00","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/tis-the-season.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the Season&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when the whole world smells faintly of crushed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asian_lady_beetle\">asian lady beetles<\/a>.  I battle through a cloud of them between my car and work (biking through them is not an option), I use the entry-way of the library (between the two sets of doors) to dust myself off and make sure none are hitching a ride indoors in my hair, and I never talk while walking (and I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">certainly <\/span>don&#8217;t yawn).<\/p>\n<p>This morning I had the morning off (Oh Fraptious Day!), and the weather was sunny and 80 degrees.  Yet all I could do was sit indoors and wish that there weren&#8217;t so many lady beetles, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Box_elder_bug\">box elder bugs<\/a>, wasps, and resurrected flies swarming my porch chair and screen.  Actually going outdoors would have been ill-advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when the whole world smells faintly of crushed asian lady beetles. I battle through a cloud of them between my car and work (biking through them is not an option), I use the entry-way of the library (between the two sets of doors) to dust myself off and make sure none are hitching a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/tis-the-season.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Tis the Season&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits-of-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}